Happy Monday...

  What a weekend!!! 6 baseball in the sun...YES, it finally quit raining for a few days and we actually had sun and80 degrees! One look at me and you would know my pasty white body isn't use to this, yeah, I'm now sporting a rudolph red nose and an oh so sexy farmer's tan! Not complaining though, it was the perfect weekend for 3 boys all in a baseball tournament.

  Last week was a bit of a blur. My dad ended up having chest pains and shortness of breath, bit of a surprise as he recently had to stints placed. Unfortunately he was one of the unlucky ones that stints didn't work on and he ended up having triple bypass surgery on Thursday. He came through great and is now on the mend. So wishing I was in Arizona right now to help him get up and running again.

How about a little crafty sharing??? Today it is some more Clear Scraps. Started with an XL Dazed shape (the scalloped circle) and some Turquoise StazOn ink and some My Mind's Eye doily stamps. I love the look of stamping on the clear acrylic because it really gives it a three dimensional look.

Other Materials:

Papers: My Mind's Eye Lime Twist, Bo Bunny Grape Double Dot

Dies: Spellbinders Donna Salazar Carnation Creations and Labels Four

Tiny Type Letter Stickers October Afternoon

American Crafts Thickers

Jewels: Want 2 Scrap

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend and a great week!

Tonya

Clear Scraps Blog Hop

Welcome to the Clearly Inspired Blog Hop!!

We hope you are "clearly Inspired" to get creative with the amazing Clear Scraps
products.
As the Clear Scraps Design Team we know how fun it is to work with acrylic and
want it to be fun and easy for you too, so hop along with Clear Scraps today and
find your acrylic inspiration!


You should be arriving here from Hilde's blog, if not then you might want to start at the Clear Scraps blog and start the hop from the beginning....HERE.


This week has been teacher's appreciation week at our schools, so I thought I would share with you the little treat boxes that I have put together for my kids to give to their teachers.


I started with four of the individual pieces from the Clear Scraps Banner pack, then put a bunch of my Spellbinders die templates to work and created these cute little decorative pieces to adorn the boxes.

The next blog you'll be hopping to after mine is Grace's click HERE to see what my very talented team mate has to share with you. You have until Saturday at midnight to leave your comments. Winner will receive the Spiffy Mixable Album. Good luck!

A sneak and a video...

sounds like fun huh?!

First up, I am lucky to be joining the gals over at Cup Cards {to go} as their guest designer for the month of April. Cassonda at Cup Cards puts together the cutest card kits every month. May's kit of full of spring time loveliness! Kits go up for sale on May first...get yours HERE! Looks like on May first there will be a purchase button on the blog. For now, here's a little sneak of one of the eight cards I made. Make sure to come back on Sunday and you'll get to see them all!

Now, I also mentioned a video in my title to this post. On Tuesday it was my turn to post a video up on the Clear Scraps blog. Since it has been there for two days, I think I can go ahead and share it with you here. 

Here are still shots of the two cards that I share with you at the end of the video. Remember to double click on the photo if you want to see it larger and get a good look at the details of the acrylic.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Tonya

Clear Scraps card

Today I have a Clear Scraps project to share with you. I started with the Restoration line from Crate Paper and the Clear Scraps Decorative Frames. Using one of the decorative frames, I trimmed off two of the ends and used these ends as a way to draw your eye to the focal point of the card. Using Timber Brown Stazon ink I stamped a flourish at the point of each the Clear Scrap pieces and lightly inked around the edges with the same ink.

Thanks for stopping by. We finally have a little sun, so hopefully we'll get some baseball in this week!

Other products used:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Markers: Copic

Bling: Mark Richards

Seam Binding: Hand dyed 

Ribbon: Vintage Findings from AMillionMemories.com

I'm back....

Whew! How can one be so tired from a glorious week in Arizona without the kids or hubby? Well, I did take my daughter, but she spent 5 days with my parents while I was at the Spellbinders Design Team Retreat. What an amazing experience! I feel so blessed and honored and above all else very fortunate to be a part of this company. I honestly thought I knew what I was getting in to....but come to find out I had only the slightest clue. Such a fabulous company with fabulous owners who have hired fabulous employees and I am surrounded by fabulous design team members. I am so appreciative for the amount of work that went  into making this the experience that it was and will be for the next year. For those of you that have seen the Oprah's favorite things episodes...let me say it was just like one of those! Their generosity and the generosity of the cross promotional and preferred product manufacturers still has me speechless. I feel so lucky that they chose me to represent them. THANK YOU so much Spellbinders!

How about a little eye candy now? This layout went live on the Clear Scraps blog while I was gone, so I thought I would share it here with you today.

I started with an XL Clear Scrap Dot (the larger of the two in the package).  I then pulled out a plastic decorative mask that I have (bought a pack of 4 different masks in the kitchen section at Ikea, they are for decorating cakes with powdered sugar), this one is a large circle with a zig zag edge around it, and I centered it over the backside of the acrylic circle. Next, I sprayed around the edges with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. I always do that part at night before I go to bed and then set it aside to dry overnight. After it is dry I then spray a sealer over the top...Glimmer Mist is water soluble and it doesn't mesh well with my sweaty hands.

Next I flipped it over to the front of the layout and outlined the zig zags with a Zig Paint Pen and added the white dots with Ranger Enamel Accents in white.

For those of you that have been checking out my blog...this is the last of the My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy Boy line you'll be seeing. I have officially exhausted the entire pack! :)

Have a great day!

Tonya

Clear Scraps Blog Hop

Yay, it's time for another blog hop and I am hurriedly typing up this post. You see, the last time we had a hop I lost electricity for 12 hours, had a plan to come home from the Portland Trailblazer game and get my post written and prescheduled to post in a couple hours. Well, by the time we got home...no power and all of my photos for said post were still on my camera. Ugh! Now, flash forward to tonight. Another Trailblazer game and once again plans to get this post up when I got home. We're home and we do have power, but we also have freezing rain, our street is a sheet of ice (yes, witnessed first hand as we fishtailed it around the corner heading to our house) and there is a big accident j that just occurred a few houses down. There are firetrucks, ambulances and flares. They are turning all of the traffic around. So, long story short...I ran in here to get this posted before something else happened and I couldn't!!!!

As many of you know CHA-W (the Craft and Hobby Association winter tradeshow) is just a couple of weeks away. Clear Scraps is releasing a lot of new and fun things. The owners also owned another company that featured cast acrylic and they have now combined the two companies under the Clear Scraps name. This cast acrylic is different from the Clear Scraps acrylic in that it is much more rigid and sturdy, you can't punch, cut, emboss, or sew through cast acrylic. But, it is very cool because you can do things with it that the other acrylic isn't "tough" enough for, Such as make a 12x12 shaped album that has clear hinges and posts with normal refill pages!!!!!!!!!! 

You should have arrived here from Elise's blog, if not head back to the Clear Scraps blog and start at the beginning of the list of designers' blogs. You'll be getting a sneak peak of brand new Clear Scraps products that will be available on the Clear Scraps website soon.....

The project I am showing you tonight is one of those new cast acrylic albums that I mentioned above....I can't begin to express how cool these are!

First, no I didn't sew on this cast acrylic, I sewed the paper before adhering it to the album. Notice the little airplane? I stamped that on with StazOn ink. The orange mist is sprayed on the backside of the cover and then I used Super Seal over the top to keep it from smearing. 

Now onto your next stop........the very talented Rita is up next.

Just click HERE to go to her blog and don't forget to leave a comment on all of the blogs you visit to be eligible to be entered to win some Clear Scraps!

Clear Scraps Blog Hop

This past year, we had an awesome opportunity to team up with Unity Stamps and we'd love to show you some of the projects we were able to create pairing a crisp, clean rubber stamp image and the acrylic and chipboard products from Clear Scraps.  

Start at the Clear Scraps blog and follow the list of designers blogs.  Comment on everyone's blog and then come back to the Clear Scraps blog and let us know that you did.  Everyone who completes this blog hop will be entered for a really nice prize package from Clear Scraps.


I chose to trim down a 12x12 sheet of Clear Scraps to make a 4.25x5.5 card.  I was sent the stamp set titled "Shine On", it  has the cutest lamp stamps. There are a total of 5 different lamp and three sentiment stamps. I am featuring three of the lamps and the You Light My Life sentiment.


Using white Stazon ink I stamped the lamps and the sentiment, then backed the lamp shades with some patterned paper.

If you arrived here on my blog just by chance then you'll want to head over to the Clear Scraps blog to get started on the blog hop. If you have been following along the list of participants from the Clear Scraps blog I am your last stop before heading back to the Clear Scraps blog. Make sure to leave comments the whole way through to have a chance to win! When you are done here head back to 

HERE!

Clear Scraps Blog Hop

Welcome to the Clear Scraps blog hop!
We're so excited you joined us this weekend to help us celebrate all our Moms and the women who play a mothering role in our lives. 
Before we get down to business here is a new layout that I just finished up. It features papers from My Mind's Eye. I used one of the 12x12 Clear Scraps sheets to hand cut the raindrops. Love these sheets, they cut so easily, especially if you have the Tim Holtz scissors.

If you haven't started at the beginning, you may want to go back to the Clear Scraps Blog   and start there.  Leave a comment on all our DT blogs, come back to the Clear Scraps blog and let us know you did, and you'll be entered into a draw for a $25 goodie bag of acrylic from Clear Scraps.  We hope you're inspired, both about acrylic, and about making something special for the "Mom" in your life this weekend.

Irene:  http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/
Cristal: http://www.blueyecicle.blogspot.com/
Rita: http://letsembellish.blogspot.com/
Tonya:  http://creativit-tonya.blogspot.com/   You are here now
Elisa: http://perpetualstew.blogspot.com/    Go to Elisa's blog next
Grace: http://www.tolmanchronicles.blogspot.com/
Cathy:  http://cathysartblog.blogspot.com/

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